Youth Services
Community Futures Grande Prairie offers and supports youth service programs.
ATTENTION: Northern Alberta Youth Entrepreneurship Camp
Northern Community Futures offices invite you to attend NAYEC 2012 August 12 - 18, 2012. If you are between the age of 13-15, we want you to come!
Campers learn about business and have lots of fun doing recreation activities too. Everyone is grouped into business teams and learned everything from coming up with Business Ideas, to Business Plan Development, Marketing and Customer Service. Once the plans are developed, supplies are purchased and products were made which were then sold on the last day - market day. The creativity and innovation is astonishing!
This camp is sponsored by Northern Community Futures offices and is absolutely free for youth to attend. Each CF sends four campers. We look forward to seeing you at NAYEC 2010 hosted at Blue Lake Centre! Come join us from August 12-18, 2011. Applications will be available at www.nayec.ca.
Community Futures about Ventures! A partnership with Northern Alberta Development Council (NADC,) the Ventures program involves encouraging students who may be at risk of leaving high school to start their own businesses and several Northern Alberta Community Futures offices have gotten on board to deliver the program in schools in their regions. The program was first piloted in Grande Prairie at Peace Wapiti Academy. It's success warranted taking the project bigger.
Students start by completing modules in a couple of CTS strands and then apply their learning to their own business plans, marketing plans, etc. Once their business plans are complete, they then apply for a Special Project at school and can also apply for a small business loan through our organization. As they operate their business, students can use their hours to obtain credits. If and when the student graduates, their business loan is paid off via dollars from NADC.
The ideas are astounding and Community Futures is thrilled to be a part of this innovative and exciting initiaitve!
For more information about Ventures, visit www.ownyourfuture.ca